Table of Contents:
  • Of circles, friendship, and the imperatives of literary history / Judith Scherer Herz
  • "Like a spyed Spie": Donne's baiting of Marlowe / M. Thomas Hester
  • "To all vertuous Ladies in generall": Aemilia Lanyer's community of strong women / Sharon Cadman Seelig
  • The invention of the literary circle of Sir Thomas Overbury / John Considine
  • "This art will live": social and literary responses to Ben Jonson's New Inn / Robert C. Evans
  • Newcastle's ghosts: Robert Payne, Ben Jonson, and the "Cavendish Circle" / Timothy Raylor
  • Reading poets reading poets: Herbert and Crashaw's literary ellipse / Paul A. Parrish
  • A space for academic recreation: Milton's proposal in The reason of church-government / Anna K. Nardo
  • Thomas Stanley and "A register of friends" / Stella P. Revard
  • Community and social order in the Great Tew Circle / Paul G. Stanwood
  • "The great difference of time": the Great Tew Circle and the emergence of the neoclassical mode / M.L. Donnelly
  • Conversation, conversion, messianic redemption: Margaret Fell, Menasseh ben Israel, and the Jews / Achsah Guibbory.